I want to find the actors of the movies in which two popular male actors of South India acted together.
The task is to find movies in which Mammootty and Mohanlal worked together and other actors in each of the movies.

Try googling it.

Now click on the link here
The link points to a SPARQL query to do the same! And look at the results on the bottom of the page!
bingo!
Welcome to Semantic Web!
Now graph search is invented by Facebook, or is it?

This is actually a test as well as info. You can now blog from Windows Live Writer, a blogging platform for Windows. You can save locally, can post to most of the popular blogging platform with xmlrpc support post draft to blog etc. One draw back I figured out is that it can not download wordpress free account theme. So you can’t see how your post actually looks in the blog while offline.

choose the correct vocabulary – there are different generic vocabularies like Dublin Core, FOAF etc and specialized vocabulary like Dcat, Void etc. for creating catalogs. Dcat is designed for government data catalogs, so I choose VoID vocabulary, which is designed for single dataset provider. It uses generic vocabularies lke FOAF and DC as well.

Select suitable tools – Tools to edit the RDF document. There are plenty of them ,in this case and RDF editor, like the Rhodonite tool for RDF editing and browsing. But I couldn’t understand it well because of poor documentation and help. So I chose an online VoID editor from DERI Galway. Though the result is in Turtle format, there are tools to convert turtle document to RDF/XML format. Like this one online : RDF Validator/converter rdfabout.com

Creating the semantic grpah – first I am going to choose a dataset and add it to my catalog. To start with, I chose CrunchBase entry listed in linkeddata.org. Go to VoID editor and add the following details in it

Convert in to RDF/XML file(serialize) – copy the dataset details in turtle notation and go to RDF/XML converter tool. And paste the turtle notated content there and select input format as N-Triples/Turtle, and click validate. The result is given below.

And the catalog is ready in RDF/XML with all the datasets added. Save it as a file with extension .rdf like Linked_data_catalog.rdf. Now the machine can understand (if programmed wisely) to some extend what data are available there to convert in to meaningful information and then to knowledge. You can find the catalog here: Linkeddata datasets catalog(note: not yet ready, comeback later )

This is a list of 10 exciting events of 2009 related to Science/Technology.

1.Google Chrome OS announced (Tech)

Google announced its entry in to the Operating System world with its Chrome OS. A straight display of their ambition to challenge Microsoft and Apple. Google’s entry to cloud computing.

2.Large Hadron Collider revived (Science/Tech)

The biggest experiment in the history of human civilization revived after initial set backs. Conducting experiments setting record on fastest paricle acceleration

3. Launch of WolframAlpha (Tech)

An unconventional but still mysterious concept called computational knowledge engine dubbed WolframAlpha is a promise of technology and a new way to deal with the web of data.

4. Robot does science experiment(Tech)

A break through in Artificial Intelligence. A robot, called Adam, successfully conducted scientific experiment and discovered scientific knowledge for the first time. Another promise of technology. BBC news article

5. Indus valley script decoded(Science/Tech)

Using pattern recognition technologies, researchers were able to identify language like patterns in one of the earliest writing system of human civilization. Wired.com article

Internet have changed our lives for sure. We learned A for Apple when we were kids. And in Google age it all changed. Let us look at how different they are from the ideal ‘A for Apple’ construct. These are from the first entry of auto search assist suggestions from top search engines.

In the previous post we have looked at anatomy of a tweet to find answers to the 140 character mystery. It quite nagged me for a while. My geek mind was losing to find an explanation. Today I found a solution. It has nothing to do with the twitter protocols probably, but some thing simpler. Twitter was created with a goal of a simple interface for near-real time communication. With a ubiquitous access to the service.

They gave all kind of user interfaces, like a web based one for web browser users, APIs for web application developers- so that developers can create applications easily, and for mobile phones through text messages.

Guess what? Now you may have got a clue.

The text message or SMS was a protocol initially designed to optimally use the telephony based GSM mobile technology. The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system and to transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephony traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed. The message length was limited by the signalling protocol used at that time. Initially it was 128 bytes and later changed to 140 bytes length.

Now Twitters’ designers may have also targetted text message users, the most widely used data application on the planet.

Everybody tweets now-a-days. Even cats tweet(@sockongton). A tweet is a burst of 140 characters from all those interesting ‘characters’ around the globe, describing ‘what they are are doing’. I wonder why just 140 characters. why not 130 or 150. So I started digging and the search lead me to check the technical anatomy of a tweet. And it gave some interesting facts about twitter. I will put the tweet anatomy examination report.

Number of charactr in a tweet is 140

Total content length(XHR request) when a tweet is 140 exactly(maximum length) – 262

Minimum content length(XHR request) when a tweet is one char long – 107

Plazma OS, based on the linux 2.6 kernel is said to show some gimmicks like 3D grphics (‘ in a battery powered small handheld’), advanced media and communication capabilities. But they say it is not a phone but a computer! in 108 gms. Hmmm! I wonder.

Also support a Zii optimized Android OS. Supposedly to harness the power of the StemCell computing technology of the ZMS-05 processor.

Added value – bulk prize of 199$ per piece price tag plus lot of development support and market ready design.

Gonna rock or bust?! Its all about the all-knowing crowd and the economy. 😉

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I belong to the geographic location called Kerala in India. Very passionate about science and technology. I believe that ability to design and use tools makes the man different from other animals.Technology is the latest tool of the mankind.I love to learn and teach these tools. I am trained to learn it and use it.